Calendar



(No Model.)

J. OUSSONS.

Calendar.

No. 237,825. Patented Feb. 15,1831.

lnveiatan MPEYERS, PHOTO-LITHOGRAPNER. WASHINGTON, D c,

UNTTED STATES PATENT Fries,

CALENDAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Fatent No. 237,825, dated February 15, 1881.

' Application filed December 1,1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JOHN GUssoNs, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, residing at Glen Allen, in the county of Henrico and State of Virginia, haveinvented new and useful Improvements in Calendars, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to tablet-calendars, or those in which a series of superposed connected leaves, each having a calendar, advertisement, or other matter printed thereon, is secured to the face of the backing-card, the leaves being torn off from the front successively to expose each during the time it is current.

It has been customary to compose the tablets of thesecalendars of leaves of the same kind of paper, and to cement, clamp, or sew them together at their upper margins, the tablet, as a whole, being secured to the backingcard by any suitable means. Tablets with their leaves cemented or clamped together are objectionable, because the leaves are held too firmly, and as they are torn away their margins are left, forming an unsightly butt, which mars the beauty of the calendar, these calendars being usually gotten up with a view to neatness and attractiveness as advertisements. Sewing I regard as the best means of connecting the leaves, from the fact that the needleholes weaken the leaf on the line on which it is to be torn and render it very easily detachable, and when the leaf is torn off its margin is at the same time detached, and either falls or can be easily brushed off. However, in the sewed tablets, as heretofore constructed by myself, with the back leaf of the same fibrous strength as the others, it has been found that the strain upon the stitching-thread, by pulling upon the front leaf, or two or three leaves, frequently results in detaching all the others from the last leaf, Which is secured to the backing-card or back board, this being natural, as the front and back leaves having the same strength one is as liable to tear as the other. I find that by making the back leaf of each tablet of a paper or other material having greater strength than the other leaves which are sewed to it, this back leaf will at all times hold the stitching threads firmly against a strain sufficient to tear away the other leaves, and thus each leaf will be held to the back leaf until purposely detached.

My invention, therefore, consists in a tabletcalendar composed of a backing card or board and a tear-off calendar-tablet composed of leaves sewed together, the back leaf being formed of a material superior in strength to or capable of resisting a greater tearing strain than the others, and cemented or pasted to the backing card or board, substantially as hereinafter described.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a tablet-calendar, and Fig. 2 the tablet detached. Fig. 3 is a view of a stack or pad of tablet-sheets ready to be cut into separate tablets.

The letter A designates the tablet, which is composed of a series of leaves, a, and a back leaf, a, all attached together by a line of stitching, B.

G is the backing-card, to and in front of the lower half of which the tablet is secured, pre ferably by cementing the upper portion of the back leaf to the face of said card. This back leaf should have a greater fibrous strength, or be capable of resisting a greater tearing strain, than any of the other leaves, in order that it may, as before explained, retain the stitching-thread against any strain to which it may be subjected in the tearing away of the other leaves, and thus the thread will, of course, hold to the back leaf all leaves which are not subjected to strain for the purpose of detaching them, the final effect M'IWGQ at being the obviation of the liability, heretofore existing in this special class of tablet calendars, of detaching all the other leaves from the back leaf when but one, or a less number than the whole, is subjected to strain with the intention of detaching it.

In the manufacture of my tablets I preferably print sheets of calendar-pages for each month, stack these sheets in proper order and then run lines of stitching along the tops of the rows of pages, thus forming parts, such as shown in Fig. 3. These pads are then run between calendar-rollers to press the seams flat and mash in the rough edges of the perforations, thus securing the threads and leaving the tablets smooth and glossy, with their leaves having a sufficient tendency to adhere, to prevent the untidy appearance which such things have when the leaves flare evenly. The pads may be cut up into separate tablets by any suitable cutter.

In preparing my tablets of ordinary printing or book paper, I ordinarily use long-fiber Japanese or sound linen paper of a little heavier weight for the back leaf, but it is of no importance what kinds of paper are used, so long as that of the back or attaching leaf is capable of resisting a greater tearing strain than are the other leaves. I prefer to have the back leaf about three times as strong as the rest.

I am aware that a calendar-tablet has been formed of leaves of paper stitched together, and to a backing-card by the same stitches, the backing-card thns serving, by its superior strength, to prevent the detachment of the whole tablet in tearing off one or a number of leaves less than the whole; and I do not claim such construction. It is obvious that such tablets conld not be completed in multiple pads, as can mine, and while the old-style calendar necessitates a breakage and disfigurement of the backing-card, in mine it is left smooth to receive printed matter of any kind desired.

\Vhat I claim is A tablet-calendar composed of a backing card or board, and a tear-off calendar -tablet composed of leaves sewed together, the back leaf being formed of a material superior in strength to or capable of resisting a greater tearing strain than the others, and cemented or pasted to the backing-card or board, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing 40 witnesses.

JOHN GUSSONS.

\Vitnesses:

JAMES L. NORRIS, JAMES A. RUTHERFORD. 

